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this was loaned to me by a friend and is a funny, easy read. the book opens with cannie, the main character, reading a magazine article about herself and her sexual performance written by her ex-boyfriend -- hence, "good in bed".
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: A. E. Yayıncılık
By the end of this book I was truly invested enough to continue reading the series. I really want to find out what happens to Barak (the Other that helps out Dr Laurel)!! I actually really liked the book - though it took a while to get into the whole concept - now I am there, bring on the next one...
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Ötüken Neşriyat
I am not going to write any spoilers about the plot so i don't ruin it for people, but I will spoil it for people who have been looking forward to another Coelho book by giving my harshest review. Now, i get to be harsh because I am one of Paulo's biggest fans, and I take his work very seriously, and trust me, I had been looking forward to this book for the past 6 months. Needless to say, I was highly disappointed. I would have given the book two and a half stars just because there was some valuable information in it and it was a quick read. This book is different than the rest of his works, even though Veronika Decides to Die was different when it was published too, but it too included a self-search, etc. The Winner Stands Alone is seriously not your typical enjoyable Coelho read. To elaborate on that, I am making a list of the things i did NOT like: 1- Too many charachters that did not add any postitive impact to the plot. 2- Scattered thought about very random things and issues. 3- I felt as though Coelho went to Cannes Fils Festival, hated it, and wanted to complain about it. 4- I also felt he really rushed to write all the ideas and publish a book without really formulating the full scope on the characters, the story, and the plot. 5- Knowing Coelho's background, I believe that he felt as though there were so many wrong things in the world that he would like to fix but cannot, and therefore decided to include them in a book so that people's interest in these issues is triggered, (e.g. blood diamonds, going "green", teenage violence, apathy and indifference, economic inequality, superfecialness, plastic surgeries, etc). 6- The book was generally just very negative, which is really unlike Coelho. He made it seem that everyone is unhappy, and there is no way that anyone at any positision or situation or lifestyle can ever achieve real true happiness. Everyone was miserable in the book, the businessman, the writer, the actors, the directors, the distributors, the journalists, and models, the assistants, the police officers, and the general public. 7- I think that this book could have been devided into 6 books if Paulo took his time and really went into each character and developed its own story. Would have had a much better outcome. Ok, so now that I am done ranting about what i did not like, let me tell you what I liked. Igor is the most intruiging character: the vigilante, the lover, the man who believes he is doing the work of God. He almost reminded me of the Stranger in the Devil and Miss Prym. What I really liked about this charachter is that, similar to other Coelho charachters, he believed he talked to his angel/guardian/God, but the best part is that this entity is not a benevolent good spirit, it's spiteful and orders him to kill. It kind of freaked me out, because I started thinking "how do we know that the guarian we trust is an angel or a demon, or a mere figment of of our good/bad imagination?" So i thought this part was very interesting. I wish he's made the whole book exclusively about Igor's journey through life. My last sentiment is that the ending was very predictable, and the book did not add anything new to my knowledge or intellect. I will continue to love Coelho, and I will expect much better in his next books to come.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Yediiklim Yayınları
Carol recomended this book.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Timaş Çocuk
A cracking compendium of essays (mostly culled from the New Statesman and The Observer) from a left-wing perspective about how the pseudo-left have distorted the meaning of what it means to be a liberal in Britain these days.
What a fascinating journey was this read. Knowing that this is a must read, if only because it is the same time period as Pride and Prejudice, and because it has the name "Jane" in the title, thus confusing it (for me) with Jane Austen, I was certain I would read it someday ... and finally it was next on the list. Expecting a romance book, I was extremely impatient with the beginning part of the book, which covers a good portion of Jane Eyre's childhood. I could not see the direct connection of her childhood to any future romance, so I kept on being annoyed by how long it went. Even now, as I type this, I cannot see any integral, plot-stopping reason to include a detailed description of her childhood, yet I can now say that I agree to it with complete satisfaction. It, as well as everything else that happens, is a part of Jane Eyre, and without it, we would go into the last half of the book with only a shallow character instead of a fully detailed and intimate one. The other thing that I did not expect were some truly crazy scenes. Some mysterious, if not supernatural elements to the story. One in particular gave me the shivers and still has left a searing image in my mind. So that was a fun gem to stumble on as well. Then, when I finally got to the unconventional romance, Bronte threw in a couple more curve balls (besides the fact that the romance was, indeed, unconventional in all senses of the word), including a climactic exit that I thought was written so well, Bronte could have easily ended the book at that melancholy, but still (in a character sense) triumphant moment, and I would have been satisfied. Instead, the narrative wandered along for another good portion of the book, and I wondered if I would end this book when Jane was an old woman and I an old man. But before too long, Bronte was able to wrap things up appropriately (not too tidily), and create a laudable piece of literature in the process. In closing, I have a couple of words of advice: do not UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES let your tyrannical aunt lock you up in a haunted corner of the house; and never EVER marry a crazy, animal-like half breed from the Caribbean. You have been warned.
I started out loving this book. The writing was beautiful and the story so intriguing. However, I was disappointed with the last half. It just didn't keep that same feeling from the first half. That being said I did really enjoy reading this book. I liked how it went back and forth between the two women and how the story was pieced together. Overall a good read.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Aşiyan Yayınları
Funny and entertaining. A must read!!
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kelime Yayınları
Didn't like this one much either.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Arı Yayıncılık
***NOTE MY REVIEWS OFTEN CONTAIN SPOILERS*** When Natalie and Ian steel their plane tickets to Japan and hijack their babysitter, Amy and Dan are forced to rely on Alistair Oh to get them to Japan and the next clue. After throwing Irina off their trail the three are kidnapped by the Holts and then chased by the Japanese members of the Tomas branch called yakusa, who are intent on killing them. With all these people out to get them will they survive to find the next clue and can they trust their companion not to be the one who stabs them in the back? With a multi author series you had to know someone would eventually drop the ball and not remember all the facts present in previous novels. Lerangis is unfortunately the one who let the ball drop. While his plot is still interesting, the contradictions between this installment and the first two novels are massive. For example if you’ve read the second novel you’ll remember that when Mr. McIntyre makes his appearance in the second novel to find out why the tracking device he placed on Grace’s cat has stopped moving, he encounters Alistair who accused him of stealing a clue. When Alistair storms off he leaves the device behind and Mr. McIntyre has it during the conversation with the Man in black. In this novel Alistair has the tracking device on him on the plane. Also Amy and Dan claim to have believed Alistair was the one who planted it on them, but no mention of that was ever made in the second novel To list all the discrepancies would be time consuming at best and probably highly tedious to read, but that give you an idea of the discrepancies I found. Considering a child’s memory is usually significantly better than an adult’s it surprises me that Lerangis was not more careful when he picked up his installment of the series. With Korman having followed through so well, it’s disappointing that Lerangis dropped the ball. Another way this installment differs from others in the series is while the first two novels were filled with historical information offering children an entertaining way to learn, this offers very little in educational information and focuses more on the characters than anything else. It includes the start of a preteen love story plot before decimating that near the end of the novel and other subplots involving the pasts of secondary characters. It was a close third person, fairly well written with a fast paced plot, but wasn’t told primarily in Amy and Dan’s point of view, but more in the points of views of what were previously secondary characters. My final issue with this book is the ending was confusing, under explained and didn’t completely make sense. While most of the characters presented were fairly well presented they didn't remain true to form with their previous appearances. Amy becomes kind of sappy, Dan is almost a brat and the two seem to fight like cats and dogs. Ian is portrayed as less mental and more emotional and though some serious depth is added to this character it doesn't fit with his previous appearances in the series. Irina and the Holts were apparently of little interest to Lerangis as their appearances were a cameo at best. Jonah Wizard and Mr. McIntyre apparently didn't interest him at all as they didn't appear in this novel. Alistair Oh receive some major character development as well but again not all of it fits with his previous appearances. Overall this was a good installment, but not a great one. I look forward to seeing what the next author in the series does with this development.
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